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The 100 best novels: No 4 – Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
14 Oct 2013:Samuel Richardson's Clarissa comes fourth in our list of the best novels written in English. Robert McCrum on the appeal of this landmark work
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8 Sep 2014: Fitzgerald's jazz age masterpiece has become a tantalising metaphor for the eternal mystery of art, writes Robert McCrum
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29 Aug 2014:
Drawn to Horace by a mutual love of wine and poetry, Eyres celebrates the importance of poetry in an age that, like Horace's own, values money above all else
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1 Jun 2014:
Andy Miller's 12-month-long immersion in the classics renewed his zest for life – and produced an inimitable memoir, says Peter Conrad
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29 May 2014: Tolkien's version of the Old English epic, along with selections from his Oxford lectures and invented texts showcase a rare mix of linguistic scholarship and literary imagination, writes Michael Alexander
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25 May 2014:
This enjoyable, if sometimes wordy study of the Greek poet, is impassioned and wide-ranging, writes Ian Thomson